My Johnny Appleseed Initiative

That's a wholesome idea. Consider craigslist to spread the word of your mission as well.

I love the old towns here in north Texas. It was tradition and practical to plant American Sycamore trees along city streets. They grow fast, live long, and provide shade in the hot summers. The trees were also used to mark property boundaries up until surveying became the norm.

The Sycamore is interesting in that it is 'self pruning'. i.e. during drought or disease the tree will actually starve some limbs until they fall off.

From Apple trees around town. They are all over town and they sit and rot. I probably picked up 100 pounds of them. I feed the cores to the deer. So they poop the seeds and spread more and more trees.

I never understood why people destroy all the trees and plant stupid grass, and when they do plant trees they plant trees that don't give any fruit. IT is stupid..

Good idea, man!

I'm trying to containerize as much fruit as possible in the yard. I was just thinking about trying to plant some fruit trees in the county park. Not sure if could get away with it or not...it is small, and right near my house. I'm hoping that the vegetable gardening myself and a few on my street do will spread as well.

One last thought is to make sure that you mix the right blend of fruit trees to encourage pollination, early, middle, late season varieities etc.

Awesome.

The Retrocon
Hope for America, Ron Paul for President in 2008!

"Hat" that ya wear when passin' out these trees. Didn't ole Johnny have one? Might just be for seeds!

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for a positive pro-active idea. Good luck, keep us informed on this project.
Peace

Your positive energy is really inspiring.
One consideration: depending on where some of us live, little trees need nurturing as well as planting. Enough watering if there isn't much rainfall.
It would help a lot to get the new owners involved -- including the kids so they'll help look after the seedlings.
I lived for 5 years in D.C. The city planted thousands of small trees one spring. But autumn after a hot dry summer, they were almost all dead. Along roads in and unoccupied areas, no one took care of them.
As always, people need to do things themselves to do them right.